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Esai Morales

Esai Morales

Birthday: 1962-10-01 | Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Esai Manuel Morales Jr. (born October 1, 1962) is an American actor. He has had notable roles in  Bad Boys with Sean Penn and La Bamba with Lou Diamond Phillips. His television roles include the PBS 2002 drama series American Family, the Showtime series Resurrection Blvd. (2000–2002), portraying Lt. Tony Rodriguez on NYPD Blue (2001–2003), Joseph Adama in the science fiction series Caprica (2009–2010), Camino del Rio in the Netflix original series Ozark (2017), and the DC Comics supervillain Slade Wilson / Deathstroke in the superhero series Titans (2019). Morales appeared as Gabriel, the main antagonist in the 2023 spy action film Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One opposite Tom Cruise, a role reprised in Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning in 2025. Description above from the Wikipedia article about Esai Morales, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2025
Cottonmouth

as    Abe

2025
Queen of Manhattan

as    Papi

2024
Crescent City

as    Luke Carson

2023
Master Gardener

as    Oscar Neruda

2023
Can't Go Home

as    Victor Castelo

2021
Senior Moment

as    Diego Lozana

2020
The Wall of Mexico

as    Henry Arista

2019
Imprisoned

as    Governor Mandera

2018
SuperFly

as    Adalberto Gonzalez

2017
Halfway There

as    Ian Sanchez

2016
Never Back Down: No Surrender

as    Hugo Vega

2016
Mars

as    Mike Glenn / Lt. Michael Glenn

2016
Casa Vita

as    Rodrigo Vita

2015
Spare Parts

as    Mr. Santillan

2015
The Brink

as    President Julian Navarro

2015
Playin' for Love

as    Principle Jose Marti

2014
Jarhead 2: Field of Fire

as    Cpt. Jones

2014
Give Me Shelter

as    Himself - Animal Advocate

2013
Saving Westbrook High

as    Manny

2012
Seattle Superstorm

as    Tom Foster